Apple is right. Technology needs to disappear (opens in new tab)

What is an AI chatbot’s output? What does it make? Neither fun, nor art, nor connection, nor productivity. It’s certainly not a deeper understanding of the world, based on the hallucinated misinformation bots have firehosed into our lives. The answer, rather, is long-term dependence; or, to use the positive verbiage of social media companies, “engagement.” Use of AI is designed to beget more use of AI, and anything else is incidental. That, at least, is the nature of chatbots in general, but ...